Wild Nature Heart
Walking Together On An Ecospiritual Liberatory Journey
Tag: ecotherapy
Global Earth Exchange: Honoring Our Love and Pain For the World
As part of Radical Joy for Hard Times’ Global Earth Exchange, we will gather to Honor Our Love and Pain for the World. This will be equal parts sharing in circle, solo time on land/with the river, a simple grief ritual, and creating ecoart… Continue Reading “Global Earth Exchange: Honoring Our Love and Pain For the World”
10 EARTH DAY-IS-EVERY-MOMENT ACTIONS
🌏Anchor in an unshakable ecospirituality (deep time, reciprocity, gratitude, humility, animism, sacred pause, honoring the season)….See More
Healing Work IS Antiracist IS Ecotherapeutic IS Decolonial IS Sacred Grief IS Rewilding
Healing work IS Anti-racist work IS Decolonial work IS Ecotherapeutic work IS Sacred Grief work IS Rewilding work.
These are not and cannot be seperate if we are to dream and enact ourselves into regenerative, cooperative, co-liberatory, earth-honoring habits of being and doing.
10 spring Poppies for Approaching Ecotherapy
When invited to teach an upcoming Ecotherapy course, I realized that something beyond more knowledge or even skills, as commonly understood, is required. Something in me balked at overly-academicizing it, and felt that all-too-familiar intellect taking over, alienating my body, heart, and soul. So these are some spring wild poppies and prickly cacti that emerged through the soil:
Deep Belonging 3.0
I created Deep Belonging because I am in love with the world & because I am grasped by a wondering: Can we, with wild nature hearts & humble courage, remember what we’ve forgotten and intentionally face this Collective Initiation of intersecting ecological & social crises?
This is the 3rd iteration of the experience—it’s now two weeks longer and I’m excited to weave in more decolonial imaginings, deepen our holding of the griefs and joys on our doorstep, and explore Compost and Turnings as guiding, dynamic metaphors.
The Purpose of Going Out is Coming Back
I recently returned from three rich days facilitating a wilderness ceremony/rite-of-passage for a young man. But as we say, the purpose of going out is to come back—to return more aligned to community with one’s unique gifts and love as medicine for your people.
I HAD BEEN FRAGMENTING MYSELF
Wild Nature Heart must integrate the somatic, the spiritual, the sensual; it must honor the artsy, the activist, and animist; it must cultivate the spaciousness to hold the grief, joy, and anger, the shadow and the light. And hold space for others to do the same.
KEEP WALKING, VISIBLE ONE
We say that the purpose of going out is to come back. We cross the threshold and go on the sacred mountain or desert, not to escape, but to claim who we really are, to embody our wholeness, and to bring back the medicine that the world needs.
WHAT IS YOUR NICHE IN THE ECOSYSTEM OF HEALING AND JUSTICE?
This is a question I am living now.
“Where your soul’s gift and your positionality (dynamic social location of power + privilege) meet is your ecological niche for a hungry world.”
This beautiful & dangerous call by Pinar Sinopoulus-Lloyd (@queerquechua) of @queernature has been swimming through the river canyons of my psyche as I feel the complex emoting of a world confronting multiple intersecting crises: ecological, social, and spiritual.
THE TREASURE AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH BREATH
The sun setting can be a daily practice for letting go of things that we are still holding onto too tightly.
Ecogrief Circles: Honoring Our Pain and Resiliency in the Era of Climate Crisis
How nourishing to witness and be witnessed in our difficult (and joyful) emotions in circle and ritual, cultivating earth community, and sharing ways of taking care of ourselves and engaging in empowering action.
Wild Nature Heart Challenge
We’re excited to announce the FREE Wild Nature Heart Challenge! In this self-paced mini-adventure, you will engage in earth-rooted activities and poetry that help you reconnect, feel alive, have fun, engage your senses, be inspired, practice presence, reground, and reconnect to your rhythm and the rhythms of nature.
Opening to the Mystery of the East
It was the final session before his solo wilderness rite-of-passage ceremony next week. But for now, we were in a redwood and bay forest along a creek and Opening to the East.
TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PAIN
Then we told the hard truth—about the state of the world, about the state of our emotions.
INNER WILDERNESS WORK
I love the work I do! I just finished another 2-hour Earth-rooted mentoring session with a new client. It is such an honor to be able to help provide a safe container for Whole Self exploration and witness the soul journey as people come into deeper belonging to themselves and nature.
🌱WILD NATURE HEART ACADEMY🦉
Really excited about what’s emerging! We’re launching Wild Nature Heart Academy
🌱Spring Emergence and The Great Turning
With migrating ducks and butterflies flitting about, the scent of cherry blossoms and lilac in the air, and brighter days, spring has Wild Nature Heart saying “Yes!” to the new season. Read our Spring Update.
Cultivating Belonging
At yesterday’s Wild Nature Heart Humboldt Gathering we dropped into our bodies, senses, souls, and stories of belonging in the Redwoods.
Free Online Ecotherapy Conference: Empowering Visions, Diverse Voices, and Practical Tools
JOIN ME, JOANNA MACY and 12+ diverse, inspirational leaders in the FIRST EVER ONLINE ECOTHERAPY CONFERENCE.
Wildlife In the Nearby Faraway
Happy World Wildlife Day! A day to celebrate all our relations, and to promote and protect biodiversity and wild habitat.
What (who) do you connect with in your nearby faraway?
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